are shooters the only games capable of getting high ratings?

[zarx]

so lets look at the 90 rated games this year

 

Portal 2 95 PC Puzzle game

Portal 2 94 PS3 Puzzle game

Portal 2 94 X360 Puzzle game

 

Mass Effect 2 94 PS3 RPG/TPS

LittleBigPlanet 2 92 Platformer

Bug Heroes 91 RPG/Castle defence 

Dead Space 2 90 Survival horror/TPS

Shogun 2: Total War 90 RTS/TBS

 

now you could argue that Portal 2 is a game that is first person and involves shooting (portals) but I think we can all agree it's really a puzzle game.

So that leaves 2 shooters ME2 (and RPG with strong shooting elements) and Dead Space 2 for shooters and an agrument could be made for discounting ME2 as it came out last year and only the late PS3 port is reviewed here.

For non shooters you have LittleBigPlanet 2, Bug Heroes, Shogun 2: Total War and of course Portal 2

so that's 2 Shooters vs 4 non shooters, you could agrue there are more "shooters" than any other genre but since there are more AAA shooting games than any other genre that is not suprising.

I don't really see it TBH, that is not to say I don't think that the current review system is inherently broken and that all games have inflated scores, I mean currently a 70 is considered an average game (some even consider it below average) and there is something wrong with that, not to mention attaching an abetary score to reviews is questionable on it's own.